WEST SEATTLE, Washington, August 29, 2011 (WSFB) – A new phenomenon has reared its head in West Seattle: Drag Racing.
High speed? Check.
High adrenaline? Check.
High heels? Uhhhhhhhh, check?
The terrain of West Seattle has been deemed conducive to this new sport in which male contestants don dresses, skirts, blouses, nylons, and heels for Cross-Country Drag Racing. This is not your traditional 40-yard dash. This is ten kilometers of grueling, heel-breaking, street-pounding, gravel face-planting, ground-piercing mayhem.
“Though it may seem hard to believe, it’s actually the the grass portions of the course that are the most difficult,” said Petr Flagstad, running the 10K for the fifth time. “I wear 6 inch stilettos and, when the ground is wet, they sink right in. The City of Seattle should pay us for aerating Lincoln Park.”
The course begins on Alki and takes racers up Beach Drive, with off-road detours through Me-Kwa-Mooks Park and Lincoln Park. The turnaround leads up Fauntleroy and through Morgan Junction, with a jaunt through Camp Long for more woodsy wobbling. The race’s final leg is Harbor Avenue, with a checkered flag back on Alki.
Said local resident Shorty “Dave” Wembley, “It’s not something that I’d do,” referring to donning a tube top and mini-skirt, “but I can relate. Back in college in Houston, I got so passed-out drunk one night, my buddies dressed me up like a lady and dropped my ass off in the parking lot of the Texas Rodeo. When I woke up… well, let’s just say it was Texas in the 60’s and they didn’t go for that. I was in drag and running like hell, too. Yeah, that still haunts me at night.”
Said Stefano Durango, a Morgan Junction resident, “It’s an organized event? I really didn’t think anything of it. Shit like that happens all the time around here.”
HAHA. And with police presence to boot!? Them some CRAZY “gals” Team WSFB.